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I found it interesting that Alan Jones mentioned the track itself, beyond the cost. Frankly, it was never a great configuration, and the Supercar V8 configuration is a non-starter. I believe development prevents the "old" config from being used, but they need to come up with something better than they currently run down there.

"If your car was a dog, then you had to figure it out and test your own limits. And we didn't go to a wind tunnel – we did it in the first turn at Indianapolis."

I wonder NTT wants some Pacific Rim races as they do a lot of business in Malaysia and Australia. If they could pair Australia with Sepang then the promoters could split shipping costs with one event covering the inbound leg and another covering the outbound. That could give the Queensland government enough savings to sell it to the public. "Look, we're bringing it back, but it will be cheaper than before."

It's an eight-and-half hour flight between Sepang and Surfers Paradise, and so if the teams wanted to do it as a ten-day road trip it wouldn't be horribly expensive logistically speaking. Also, if were the first events of the season they could put the cars on a ship for the outbound leg, air-freight the cars to the next leg and then ship the cars back by boat. Maybe they could include Long Beach in there some how so the teams could travel to three races with only one trip out west.

$217 million over 18 years which is about $12-13 million a year. I doubt it was stayed like that during it whole duration though but instead steadily climbed as the years went on. Count inflation into that too and who knows how much it would cost per race now. I hope it does happen though and the February date sounds like a good choice.

A nice convenient time slot for the NBC folks to put the race on NBCSN and directly up against their very own early season Sunday Night Football. I see no issues or concerns there from the series or the broadcast partner.

A nice convenient time slot for the NBC folks to put the race on NBCSN and directly up against their very own early season Sunday Night Football. I see no issues or concerns there from the series or the broadcast partner.